PokerMatch Leads PokerScout

The Ukrainian resource PokerMatch has increased the number of cash players by a record 10 times in 10 days. Let’s not guess about the main success of spring 2021 – the work was extraordinary, we suggest you familiarize yourself with the history step by step.

PokerMatch, like any other popular resources, has already captured its audience and gained attention through Telegram – a cross-platform messenger, often used as a free advertising platform. The “Poker Director” channel under the leadership of Ruslan Bangert provides players with the most relevant bonuses, promotions and news from the world of online poker. Thanks to live information, streams and frequent promotions for subscribers, the number of participants in the Telegram channel exceeded 15,000 people in April 2021.

Before PokerMatch took 5th place in cash traffic among international rooms, the audience of the Poker Director channel did not exceed 7.5 thousand. It was from October 2020 that the activity of players increased rapidly. The reason was the opening of the «Poker Director’s Miners» promotion. The access conditions turned out to be unprecedented – it became possible to join the table with

«capital»

from 1 UAH, and blinds and antes started from 1 kopeck. Also, the excitement was greatly boosted by tickets for 1000 played hands to participate in the all-in shootout tournament of the Boom-Boom series with a jackpot of 4.4 thousand UAH.

Thus, PokerMatch made a huge leap among competitors and entered the fight for the championship with the four leaders: the famous GGPokerOk, Winamax Poker, the IDN network and PokerStars: 

In an interview for Pekarstas, Ruslan Bangert, with his usual ease, explained the maneuver, unusual for online poker, by an ambitious open-mind team, a desire to surprise, and simply a good platform for implementation. The young Ukrainian guys did not plan to conquer the sphere “by algorithm” in advance, a spontaneous injection of a bright idea and immediate organization of the process served as an impetus for further development.

The “Poker Director’s Miners” campaign was preparation, as Ruslan said, for the implementation of more serious and technologically complex projects in the future. The PokerMatch platform had to pass the test – the team and software coped, they are ready for more.

Six months later, PokerMatch began to implement their ambitious plans. The room has once again opened micro-limit tables with auto-all-in, the distinctive feature of which was the ability to mine the bad beat jackpot that appeared in the hands. According to the rules of the game, a full house on aces AAAxx and higher lost to a strong hand if the winner and loser used both pocket cards in the combination. The promotion was organized immediately after the discussion in the live chat – special software makes it possible to deploy the bonus program within 15 minutes. Mining tables are especially attractive to users – the game process is automatic and does not require user attention, and the program can be launched on any device from a TV screen to a mobile device.

PokerMatch rose to 4th place in the cash traffic rankings in just one night from March 18 to 19, overtaking PartyPoker, 888poker and the iPoker network. 

The snag for PokerMatch in the world statistics is maintaining the top mark for cash, and not jumping to the peak. To do this, it is important to maintain the number of players, but during the daytime prime time on March 19, the server part could not withstand the load of 6,050 cash players and the pool of participants was disconnected.

The next step is PokerMatch has launched a bad beat jackpot update. Since March 23, players who have collected the best combos have been published on leaderboards and received free spins in slots. The top 100 have fixed on the “royal” combination: 

On March 28, PokerMatch reached the 2nd line of the rating. It was then that Ruslan Bangert made the final creative breakthrough: distribution of bonuses with a face value of 5 UAH in the amount of 5000 for the play room players at the mining tables. On the morning of March 30, PokerMatch celebrated their victory, overtaking PokerStars. 

PokerMatch Repeated Their Grand Success PokerStars (2007-2021), IDNPoker (in 2020 they took the lead in the ranking for a couple of weeks due to multi-accounting, which is prohibited in most play rooms) and PartyPoker (2006). Ruslan Bangert’s project has become the fourth legendary leader in cash traffic in the 15 years of the rating’s existence.

Meanwhile, not everyone was pleased with the site’s success – in response to the criticism, accusations of unfair competition and bonus dumping, the head of PokerMatch ironically joked that the whole trick is a game with a game, ingenuity on an already established field and testing the mothballed boundaries, hinting that this will not be the last time they will shake up the community.

PokerScout and PokerIndustryPro contacted PokerMatch for an explanation. On March 23, Ruslan Bangert (then 4th place at PokerMatch) published a response in the Telegram channel that at boost tables with auto-all-in, even modest bets and a small jackpot remain real money and prizes without cheating. On a friendly note, the dialogue was closed, PokerScout wished the Ukrainian platform development without disqualification.

PokerIndustryPro, in turn, is more customer-oriented towards the pro league, so they are skeptical about rating jumps and outbreaks (for example, the Asian IDN network cannot be monitored for traffic due to the platform’s internal policies and regulations). So they removed PokerMatch from the Gameintel rating system, practically equating the jackpot, based on luck, with the casino, and considered the defiantly small bets a compromising trick for online poker, which only creates the appearance of cash traffic. The head of PokerMatch tried to challenge the decision on Chat Miner’s Jackpot, promoting the idea of ​​innovation and creativity in an area where there is no limitation on skill or luck, crossing both needs into a new product for online poker.

PokerIndustryPro reasonably explained their position by the exclusively professional focus of the service outside of the analytics of marketing surges. Return to the Gameintel PokerMatch rating leaderboard will be possible after the end of the temporary promotion with mining tables.

Promo PokerMatch was successful, now the entire international online poker community has heard about Ruslan Bangert’s play room. Low stakes and the possibility of a jackpot have attracted a large number of players to the site, which will help maintain the rating leadership for some time, and PR due to the ongoing discussions will continue to fuel interest to look in and, perhaps, become a regular client of the resource. However, do not relax and forget that the idea with mining is no longer new and will be repeated on other sites, tempting the audience to migrate from room to room. To thunder stronger <a href="https://pokermatch.com/ru/?partner=p77105p289364p4ddft16659" target="_blank" rel="